1. A. Nothing in this Section prevents additional offsite training of a pharmacy technician.
2. B. Pharmacy technician trainee training program. A pharmacy permittee or pharmacist-in-charge shall develop, implement, review, revise, and enforce, in the manner described in R4-23-653(A), a pharmacy technician trainee training program that is based on the needs of the individual pharmacy and designed to prepare the pharmacy technician trainee to pass a Board-approved national certification examination.

3. C. Pharmacy technician drug compounding training program.

   1. 1. A pharmacy permittee or pharmacist-in-charge shall develop, implement, review, revise, and enforce, in the manner described in R4-23-653(A), a pharmacy technician drug compounding training program based on the needs of the individual pharmacy.

   2. 2. A pharmacist-in-charge shall:

      1. a. Document the date a pharmacy technician successfully completed the pharmacy technician drug compounding training program, and
      2. b. Maintain the required documentation for inspection by the Board or its designee.
4. D. A pharmacy technician shall perform only those tasks, listed in R4-23-1104(B), for which training and competency has been demonstrated.
5. E. If a pharmacy technician trainee leaves a training program described under subsection (B) before successfully completing the training program, the pharmacist-in-charge shall provide the pharmacy technician trainee with written documentation of the hours of training completed and the tasks for which competence was demonstrated.

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 1192, effective May 1, 2004 (Supp. 04-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 12 A.A.R. 3032, effective October 1, 2006 (Supp. 06-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 102, effective March 10, 2013 (Supp. 13-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 25 A.A.R. 1015, effective June 1, 2019 (Supp. 19-2). Amended by final rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 3095 (October 25, 2024), effective November 30, 2024 (Supp. 24-4).